Crime Blog

Former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and his attorney Ray Jackson plan to call WFAA’s Gary Reaves to testify in their contempt trial Jan. 28 before U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn, according to witness lists filed in the case. Reaves conducted the TV interview four days before jury selection began in last year’s Dallas City Hall public corruption trial that got Hill and Jackson in hot water.

“We can now look in hindsight and see that local Democratic officials were targeted by the FBI and justice department under our last president, Mr. Bush,” Hill told Reaves on June 18, days after Lynn had issued a gag order to protect prospective jurors from being tainted by pretrial publicity.

Hill and Jackson denied the interview violated the gag order. Lynn appointed a special prosecutor and ordered a contempt trial to settle the matter.